ص ح ف

Arabic

Etymology

Through the borrowing of Ge'ez መጽሓፍ (mäṣḥaf).

Root

ص ح ف • (ṣ-ḥ-f)

1. forms words related to writing on paper

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form II: صَحَّفَ (ṣaḥḥafa)
  • Verbal noun: تَصْحِيف (taṣḥīf)
  • Active participle: مُصَحِّف (muṣaḥḥif)
  • Passive participle: مُصَحَّف (muṣaḥḥaf)
• Form V: تَصَحَّفَ (taṣaḥḥafa)
  • Verbal noun: تَصَحُّف (taṣaḥḥuf)
  • Active participle: مُتَصَحِّف (mutaṣaḥḥif)
  • Passive participle: مُتَصَحَّف (mutaṣaḥḥaf)

Nouns

• صَحِيفَة f (ṣaḥīfa, “leaf”)
  • صُحُفِيّ m (ṣuḥufiyy, “journalist”)
  • صَحَفِيّ m (ṣaḥafiyy, “journalist”)
• مُصْحَف m (muṣḥaf, “volume, codex”)
• صِحَافَة f (ṣiḥāfa, “journalism”)
  • صِحَافِيّ m (ṣiḥāfiyy, “journalist”)
• صَحّاف m (ṣaḥḥāf, “newspaper trader”)
• صَحْفَة f (ṣaḥfa, “bowl, plate”)
• صُحَيْفَة f (ṣuḥayfa, “saucer”)

Adjectives

• صِحَافِي (ṣiḥāfī, “related to journalism”)
• صُحُفِيّ (ṣuḥufiyy, “journalistic”)
• صَحَفِيّ (ṣaḥafiyy, “journalistic, journalist”)

References

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 248
• Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 192–194
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ጸሐፈ”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 552